🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Would you like to have a piece of cake?
- No, thank you. I'm on a diet.
- Why? You're not fat.
- I'm considering entering for the beauty contest this summer, so I must have a slender figure.
- Women of all shapes would be beautiful if they are self-confident.
- I'm afraid the judges do not think so. All the beauty contests are for slim girls only.
- Well. There's a beauty contest in Thailand just for fat beauties.
- How much do they weigh?
- All the beauties who entered the contest were over 80kg.
- But I'm not fat enough to enter that contest.

💡 Example 💡 fogou

fogou (noun): All known fogous are associated with settlements, and their creation would have taken considerable effort, so they obviously had some function for these communities. The fogou at Carn Euny dates from the early part of the Iron Age; here it is thought that the large, stone-lined chamber, which is circular and 5 metres in diameter, was constructed first.

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🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛

She has been taking care of her newborn baby.

✳ tongue (noun)

Sounds:
- /tʌŋ/ (Canada, Received-Pronunciation, US)
- /tʊŋ/ (Northern, UK)
- /tɒŋɡ/
- /tʊŋɡ/

Forms:
- tongues (plural)

tongue (noun) senses:
1. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
2. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).
3. Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
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✳ tongue (verb)

Forms:
- tongues (present, singular, third-person)
- tonguing (participle, present)
- tongued (participle, past)
- tongued (past)

tongue (verb) senses:
1. (music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
2. (slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
3. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
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🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛

He has been learning to play the piano.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

The bed was very small. Austin slept next to Lee.
- (Lee) I am exhausted today!
- Didn't you sleep at Austin's house last night?
- Yes, but I didn't know his bed was so small.
- Next time you need to have Austin come to your house then.
- I know, he was so close to me that I couldn't stretch out like I usually do.
- Don't say anything to Austin though because it would hurt his feelings.

💡 Example 💡 footage

footage (noun): The weaponry at their disposal was said and shown in numerous video footages to be mainly small arms and anti-tank rocket launchers, etc. — the 'classical' arms of the guerilla.

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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The children play hide-and-seek.

✳ celebration (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˌsɛlɪˈbɹeɪʃən/

Forms:
- celebrations (plural)

celebration (noun) senses:
1. The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament.
2. The observance of a holiday or feast day, as by solemnities.
3. The act, process of showing appreciation, gratitude and/or remembrance, notably as a social event.
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- i bought three pounds of potatoes for a dollar.
- that's a good deal.

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The baby coos when content.